[Coco] OT: PureBasic?

[Robert Hermanek]

I think PureBasic is great, but I have not done anything terribly 
involved with it (yet).  It is a bit more low-level than visual basic, 
so you will be in charge of writing your own idle loop, event handlers 
etc.  But... I was able to create a simple app rather quickly with it.  
I keep meaning to play with it more, as it has tons of built in 
libraries, even for things like 3d graphics.

One of the biggest factors in my buying it was the fact that it is very 
well documented, to the tune of 1,300 pages.  And not useless pages 
either.  So on the whole, I was happy with my purchase.

-RobertH


On 4/20/2015 2:34 PM, Bill Pierce via Coco wrote:
> Has anyone here used PureBasic? I've been trying to find something that I came develope on for multi-platform and PureBasic seemed to pop up in my searches quite often.
> I'm thinking of purchasing the latest, PureBasic 5.31 as it's got a reasonable price, but I want to know if it's worth the effort.
> I really want something "basic oriented" as I don't feel like delving too deep into a new language.
> I have a few "Coco oriented" projects in mind. One would be something like Luis Fernandez's "CocoDSKUtil" which is a really nice program, but unfinished (crashes often) and unfortunately, a lot of it is in Spanish. The IDE menus and labels are in english, but a lot of the prompts are still in spanish, so when I get an error (which is often) or prompt, I have no clue what it is as these are partly in spanish. I have a couple of other projects in mind as well.
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> I'm very familiar with MS Visual Basic and have worked with several other Basics as well, so would PureBasic be a good choice, or is there something else I should look for? As I said, I would like to be able to develope for (at least) Windows, Mac and Linux so that anything I come up with could be available for everybody.
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